If you want to truly answer your own question about whether Stock is a below average coach or not go do a little research. Here's your homework. Go look at what Stockstill's record is against teams that finish the season with a winning record. Then look at what Stockstill's record is against teams that finish the season .500 or below.
See, here's the thing young grasshopper. Approaching 15 years worth of data points. Most schools never have this much data to make assessments and decisions. Stockstill has coached almost 200 games at MT. The results speak for themselves, but beyond that we see a couple of other key and significant red flags.
1) Attendance. The fans will speak and tell you. When an entire fanbase is essentially unified in the same direction there isn't much room for debate. Hell, even as bad as we got with Andy McCollum (multiple losing seasons, being punished for APR violations, etc.) there were still people that fought to keep him at MT. That's not even happening here with Stock, because the level of apathy that has set in is program destroying. And soul crushing too.
2) There is no energy in the program. CRS does not sell the program. And frankly it might be good now that he doesn't, because if he did at this point he would be under delivering. There is not other way to put it than there is no energy in the program. It's like football on a ventilator. MT needs someone who can reinvigorate the student body, the alumni, and the casual fence sitters. Stock is monotone, coach speak. Says the same thing everytime, everyday.
3. He doesn't emphasize program building. If there isn't a single other indicator that encapsulates it all it's this one. Stockstill has no vision for making MT a championship destination. Games like Vandy, Army, wkcc, bowl games they are just the next game on the schedule to him. There's nothing special about them. Can't get too high. Can't get oo low. Ho hum. He's intent to live Groundhog Day. Same thing over and over and produce the same results. He doesn't change or evolve to make MT better. This is what separated Kermit from Rick. Kermit believed MT could be a premier basketball program, but he knew he needed evolve to make it happen. And he did. Rick will never change. He can go 0-10 this year and he will do the same thing next year. So, when you ask what does a great program look like it looks like the football version of Kermit's run from 2012 to 2018. And Kermit did it in spite of the lack of leadership from the top. There is no doubt Cope and Murphy Center are key cogs in our current failures.
A great program requires change. A complete house cleaning ala Memphis as Franklin Raider pointed out. MT has so many things going for it if we had the right people pulling the right levers. I believe MT could be Boise. But that's of course the best case most unlikely scenario. I say that because if a school like Boise can do it anyone can. It just just takes leadership. Boise may not have the pro competition to deal with fan support, but they don't even come close to having the amount of talent in their own back yard to pull from. Boise or not, MT can definitely be better than this. There is no reason why MT couldn't do what Memphis is doing now or even further deliver the consistency of a school like Cincinnati. Or App State. That's what we should be striving to achieve. I don't see MT striving to achieve those types of goals. I don't really see MT striving to achieve much of anything. When you sit back and look at where we are right now, "the program" and the university are doing nothing but going through the motions.